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"Qaeda has dirty bomb" London - Jan.1 - Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terrorist network has developed a crude radioactive device known as "dirty bomb" in a nuclear laboratory in the Afghanistan city of Heart, the British Broadcasting Corp. in a report said on Friday. The BBC said that the evidence, revealed by officials, was shown by BBC to an Al Qaeda expert, Dr. Mustufa Alani of the Royal United Service Institute, who said the information was "genuine". The Asian Age - Feb.1, 2003 ISI asks militants to use toy planes for attacks in J&K In order to have a "mini replica" of the September-11-attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan's ISI have directed militants, especially Lashkar cadres, to use "toy planes" to target army posts and VVIPs in India. Sources said the ISI had handed over four dozen such planes - capable of carrying 10-15 KG of RDX - for carrying out attacks on army posts and IAF helicopters. Two such planes were recovered recently from Rajouri district of Jammu region. The toy planes, which can be operated by a remote control, take a set trajectory and hit a target within a range of 300 meters. Hindustan Times - Feb.4, 2003 Osama: I will die a martyr this year in 'eagle's belly' London - Feb.13: A Britain-based Islamic news agency said on Thursday it had a new audio recording of Osama bin Laden in which "he predicts he will die as a martyr this year in an attack against his enemies". The Al-Ansaar news agency said the 53-minute tape was allegedly recorded this month and acquired from a seller who advertised over the Internet. "In this final year I hurl myself and my steed with my soul at the enemy. Indeed on my demise I will become a martyr," the Al-Qaeda leader purportedly said. "I pray my demise isn't on a coffin bearing green mantles. I wish my demise to be in the eagle's belly," he continued. The Asian Age - Feb.14, 2003 UK on terror alert London - Feb.12 - Heathrow airport was being patrolled by 15000 anti-terrorist police and troops after intelligence warnings identified it as a likely target for an imminent attack by Al Qaeda-linked militants armed with anti-aircraft missiles. There were fears that Al Qaeda could use the end of the Islamic festival of Id al-Adha which runs form Wednesday until Saturday as a trigger for attacks. Prime Minister Tony Blair was told of the threat and rubber stamped the deployment of troops. Hindustan Times - Feb.13, 2003 Bin Laden tells brethren to fight 'enemy' US Dubai - Feb.16 - An Islamic website broadcast an audio tape purported to be the voice of Osama bin Laden telling Muslims to fight against the "enemy" US, and said it had been made to mark last week's Muslim fears of Id. The recording said, "It is the utmost duty to fight the enemy that sabotages the world. Jihad is a necessity for Muslims today, you must all fight to uphold the truth. It is the duty of Muslims to fight for the sake of God and to incite the faithful to fight the infidels". The website did not give a specific date when the recording was made. It follows another audio tape broadcast last week by Qatar's Al-Jazeera television network in which the Saudi-born militant called on Muslims to use suicide attacks and bombings to prevent a US war on Iraq. Bin Laden started the message by identifying the US and its "foolish" President, George W. Bush, as the enemy of all Muslims and said it was waging a "Zionist Crusader" campaign to carve up the whole region. "O Muslims, do not fear America because we have defeated them repeatedly and they are the most cowards of people when you meet them face to face," he declared. The Indian Express - Feb.17, 2003. 'Qaeda planned attacks in Feb' New York - Feb.16 - The United States has credible intelligence that Al Qaeda had planned an attack or multiple attacks at some point last week and that members of Congress could have been the terrorist outfit's likely target, a media report said today. Intelligence reports gathered from human and electronic sources around the world suggested what intelligence officials had suspected for weeks - Al Qaeda operatives "are in the execution phase of some of their operations." A senior US official was quoted by Time magazine as saying: Telephone calls and emails exchanged between several suspected terrorists and intercepted by the US and foreign intelligence agencies pointed to a plot inside the US using nerve gas, poisons or radiological devices. A senior official tells the magazine that domestic law-enforcement agencies were investigating a report that Islamic fundamentalists in this country were trying to acquire parts to build an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) abroad that could be deployed to spray chemical agents over populated area, which might be used against US assets there. The Indian Express - Feb.17, 2003. Osama plans to discharge deadly cargo at US port Times News Network - Washington - According to Pakistani-American insider Mansoor Ijaz, Al-Qaeda may be getting ready to discharge some deadly cargo at an American port - a detonated nuclear device. Ijaz says Osama may be filling in the gap right now with help from renegade North Korea and US ally Pakistan. North Korea, Ijaz says, will be able to churn out "Coke cans of Plutonium" at the rate of one per week by the end of March. Financially empowered senior Al-Qaeda leaders are standing by in Indonesia and Philippines to purchase the stuff the moment it is reprocessed. Eight senior Pakistani nuclear scientists who left their country up to July 2002 without obtaining the required No Objection Certificates, remain untraced and at least some are reported to have travelled to Australia and Indonesia. Ijaz adds the terror group has resorted to the use of seafaring vessels to move its people around, and now has a fleet large and diverse enough that one or two could seamlessly move into a large harbour or congested waterway undetected. The target could be any place in the world, from the Sydney Harbour to Singapore to Suez Canal. But the target closest to bin Laden's heart, says Ijaz, "likely remains a seaport that would allow him to go to his Allah in the belly of the Eagle - perhaps on the western seaboard of the US." Times of India - Feb.21, 2003 Islamic 'moral militants' set to strike again Jakarta - Feb.27 - A radical Islamic group has revived its paramilitary wing recruiting new members and getting ready to restart its 'battle against immorality' that targets nightspots across the capital. Economic rather than religious reasons may be behind the decision of the Islamic Defenders Front(FPI) to resume its much-feared activities. The group was disbanded in November following the arrest of its leader Habib Rizieq Shihab. Registration for the group started on Febn.19, just days before seven of its senior members were scheduled for release from a four-month jail term. The Statesman - Feb.28, 2003. Food
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